Easy stepson the road to Eurostars

Eurostars-2 participating countries and the European Commission will invest an estimated total of € 73.2 M* in the co-funded (public and private) transnational innovation projects involving 25 different countries. With 414 applications received, the overall success rate for projects in this evaluation round was 25%.

As a result of the evaluation, a total of 364 entities will participate, the clear majority of them being SMEs (74%), followed by universities and research institutes (20%) and large companies and other entities (6%).

These are the results of the latest evaluation round for applications (cut-off 8) to the Eurostars-2 programme supporting international innovation projects led by research and development (R&D) performing SMEs.

Top tech areas, top countries, top projects

A total of 37 successful projects will create innovative products, services or processes in biotech. This is the highest share for a tech area, followed by industrial projects (22), ICT (20), energy (13) and environment (10).

The top three countries involved in a Eurostars collaboration are Germany, with 31 participants, the Netherlands (27) and Switzerland (27).

Since 2014, Eurostars-2 has supported a total of 791 projects worth around € 1.4 billion.

* Eurostars adopts a decentralised funding methodology. All funding to participants in approved projects is managed by the Eurostars countries according to national funding rules and procedures. The eligible costs may vary between Eurostars countries. The funding estimate is based on an average funding rates observed per country and per type of participants.

The information contained in this website is related to the Eurostars Programme (2008-2013) and the Eurostars-2 Programme (2014-2020) which for practical reasons are referred to solely by the name of Eurostars unless stated otherwise.